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How to clone a drive to another drive

antize

I have a computer with a hard drive encrypted with Sophos SafeGuard and I would like to clone the drive to another drive (an SSD) for better performance.

Is this possible?

What tools are good to use?

Are there any things I should watch out for?

Thanks!

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    Hi Antize,

    we haven't officially tested any imaging software alongside with SafeGuard Enterprise in the official test / qa cycle but you can of course always create an image of your disk to move on to another drive.


    There are certain things that you have  to keep in mind:

    - the disk is encrypted, so you can only perform sector by sector copies and the image cannot be compressed - so your target drive should be at the same size as your source drive.

    Also you must copy every sector - even those that are flagged as "bad" within the file system. Otherwise you wouldn't copy important parts from SafeGuard Enterprise (i.e. the POA), when taking the image.

    Please mind that I cannot give out any recommendation regarding imaging tools.

    Edit: We do support Lenovo Rescue and recovery of course ;)

    Cheers,

    Chris

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    Hi Antize,

    we haven't officially tested any imaging software alongside with SafeGuard Enterprise in the official test / qa cycle but you can of course always create an image of your disk to move on to another drive.


    There are certain things that you have  to keep in mind:

    - the disk is encrypted, so you can only perform sector by sector copies and the image cannot be compressed - so your target drive should be at the same size as your source drive.

    Also you must copy every sector - even those that are flagged as "bad" within the file system. Otherwise you wouldn't copy important parts from SafeGuard Enterprise (i.e. the POA), when taking the image.

    Please mind that I cannot give out any recommendation regarding imaging tools.

    Edit: We do support Lenovo Rescue and recovery of course ;)

    Cheers,

    Chris

    :29517
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